From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Sjron-0001eA-GI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:58:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56BEBE07E6; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:57:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB54E07D5 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-143-68.netcologne.de [78.35.143.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 88F7EDC054 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:56:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:56:07 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount Message-ID: <20120627145607.616e0d6b@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <1340795027.1962.0@numa-i> References: <20120627024433.GA3233@solfire> <1340795027.1962.0@numa-i> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 319fca47-dbac-4bcd-81fe-1e0604df8aad X-Archives-Hash: 05b8c8ecae653e1848a2a2020b74898b Helmut Jarausch writes: > On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 > > from this disk: [...] > > which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed. > > > > I was urged to use the sysreq-key to reboot and get rid of that > > process. > > > > This happens with kernel 3.2.21 and 3.4.4. > > > > Is this the expected bahviour? At least it happens here, too. And the mount process uses 100% of one of my cores, this was not expected. > I cannot tell you if kernel hanging in this case is normal. > > But, if there is any problem during mount, the kernel seems to hang. > As far as I remember, it only has a very long time out, but it will > 'kill' that mount request some time. Let's see how long 'very long' is, it's hanging for over one hour now. I will wait some more hours, but that would be one really long timeout. Wonko